Burkhardswalde village church (Klipphausen)
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The Protestant village church Burkhardswalde is a late Gothic hall church in the Burkhardswalde district of Klipphausen in the district of Meißen in Saxony . It belongs to the sister church association of the parishes Burkhardswalde, Krögis and Miltitz-Heynitz of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony .
History and architecture
The elaborate church was probably once the destination of a pilgrimage and can be seen from afar with its unmistakable silhouette in the surrounding landscape. The roof structure was dendrochronologically dated to 1470.
The building is a plastered quarry stone building with a retracted choir with a three-eighths closure . The buttresses are provided with pinnacles , some of which have finials . Large tracery windows brighten the interior. The sacristy with a late Gothic portal is attached to the north of the choir. The buttresses on the nave have no attachments, some of the pointed arch windows have remained without tracery and some were changed later. Simple late Gothic portals in sandstone in the west, south and north open up the building. The three-story, massive west tower with corner blocks, not in the central axis of the nave, probably comes from the previous building from the first half of the 15th century and was renewed after a fire in 1799. Characteristic are the mighty gable roof of the nave with an octagonal ridge turret with a baroque hood, the slightly higher simple gable roof of the tower and the much lower choir roof.
The brightly lit, wide, three-aisled nave with only three bays was originally intended for a vault and is closed with a flat wooden ceiling over four octagonal, grooved sandstone pillars that divide the ships and associated arched walls. On the pillars, ribs above the head and leaf consoles have been preserved. In the northeast corner there is a spiral staircase, presumably from the 15th century, of previously unknown function. A large fluted choir arch opens to the two-bay choir, the ribs of its net vault sit on head consoles. The two-storey wooden west gallery dates from the 18th century.
Furnishing
An artistically valuable epitaph altar of mannerism made of sandstone and wood, over 5 m high, was created in 1619 by Melchior Kuntze for Heinrich von Ende († 1600). The altar represents the type of the triumphal arch retable with aedicula - excerpt and shows inscription cartouches on the predella that refer to Heinrich von Ende and his wife Maria von Haubitz († 1628). Above it is a two-zone structure with a narrow predella-like zone with a Last Supper relief and laterally assigned male and female members of the donor clan kneeling on projections, the upper main zone is designed with two Ionic columns, with a large relief of the Nativity in a arched niche between them . The columns are accompanied by pilaster strips , which bear the coat of arms of the nobility, the excerpt is decorated with a relief of the baptism of Christ , on its gable the figure of Salvator mundi and two angels form the conclusion. The cafeteria of the altar is late Gothic, the forged altar grille comes from the 18th century. The organ was made by Eule Orgelbau Bautzen in 1931.
The wooden pulpit from 1626 is painted with biblical and allegorical figures and provided with the coats of arms of those from Ende / von Haubitz. A late Gothic sacrament house made of sandstone from the end of the 15th century consists of a substructure, a supporting column, the housing with a keel arch opening with a canopy and stands free in front of the north wall of the choir. A wooden epitaph for Georg von Ende († 1666) in an octagonal frame is painted and decorated with carved trophies and cartilage . On the choir walls there are grave monuments of a boy, son of Albrecht von Miltitz († 1575), Albrecht von Miltitz († 1583), Heinrich Albrecht von Ende and wife (both † 1709), a woman, probably the widow of Albrecht von Miltitz , End of the 16th century, all made of sandstone, with relief portraits of the deceased; the large plate from 1709 is decorated with colored coats of arms and cartouche reliefs.
literature
- Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments. Saxony I. District of Dresden. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-422-03043-3 , pp. 73-74.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about churches on the rectory's website. Retrieved December 2, 2019 .
- ^ Ulrich Dähnert: Historical organs in Saxony . 1st edition. Verlag Das Musikinstrument, Frankfurt am Main 1980, ISBN 3-920112-76-8 , p. 50-51 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 4 ′ 26.1 " N , 13 ° 25 ′ 46.8" E